Novels in Verse

  • People Kill People

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    “Fall’s most provocative YA read.” —Entertainment Weekly

    A New York Times bestseller.

    Someone will shoot. And someone will die.

    A compelling and complex novel about gun violence and white supremacy f

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    • Author: Hopkins, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 1481442945
    • Language: English
  • Bruiser

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman, delivers a suspenseful, eloquent, and thrilling novel that you won’t be able to stop thinking about after you’ve put it down

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    • Author: Shusterman, Neal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 04 2011
    • ISBN10: 0061134104
    • Language: English
  • Spin

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    A Chicago Public Library Teen-Approved Best Book of 2023

    “A powerful feminist retelling of an ancient tale about empathy and defiance, written in beautiful verse from a truly unique viewpoint.”Marg

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    • Author: Caprara, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: June 04 2024
    • ISBN10: 1665906200
    • Language: English
  • Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams

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    From award-winning verse novelist Shari Green comes an unforgettable story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a [more below]

    • Author: Green, Shari
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1524881120
    • Language: English
  • They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid’s Poems

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    A companion to the Pura Belpr? Honor book They Call Me G?ero

    “You can be my boyfriend.” It only takes five words to change G?ero’s life at the end of seventh grade. The summer becomes extra busy as he

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    • Author: Bowles, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593462572
    • Language: English
  • Unsettled

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    A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year – Kid’s Indie Next List – Featured in Today Show’s AAPI Heritage Month list A Kirkus Children’s Best Book of 2021 – A National Council of Teachers of E

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    • Author: Faruqi, Reem
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063044706
    • Language: English
  • The One Thing You’d Save

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    If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a

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    • Author: Park, Linda Sue
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: March 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 1328515133
    • Language: English
  • Tricks

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    Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins.

    “When all choice is taken

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    • Author: Hopkins, Ellen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: August 25 2009
    • ISBN10: 1416950079
    • Language: English
  • Traffick

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    Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this “sincere and moving” (Booklist) companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of[more below]

    • Author: Hopkins, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: January 24 2017
    • ISBN10: 1442482885
    • Language: English
  • Burying the Moon

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    A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village.

    In Latika’s village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean t

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    • Author: Poulin, Andrée
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 1773066048
    • Language: English
  • Mountain Dog

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    When Tony’s mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move–Tony’s new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly,

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    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 15 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250044243
    • Language: English
  • Serafina’s Promise

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    NAACP Image Award winner and ALA Notable, this luminous, celebrated novel in verse is now in paperback.

    Serafina made a secret promiseto go to school and learn to readso she can become a doctorwith her… [more below]

    • Author: Burg, Ann E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 28 2015
    • ISBN10: 0545535670
    • Language: English
  • Witness

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    Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse immerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale.

    Witness joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved nov… [more below]

    • Author: Hesse, Karen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 30 2019
    • ISBN10: 1338359673
    • Language: English
  • Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems

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    Convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union against the United States, Ethel Rosenberg shares the story of her beliefs, loves, secrets, betrayals, and injustices in this compellin[more below]

    • Author: Krasner, Barbara
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1635926254
    • Language: English
  • La Rebelión de Rima Marín (Rima’s Rebellion): El Valor En Tiempos de Tiranía

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    De la autora premiada Margarita Engle, una inspiradora novela de formaci?n sobre una ni?a que se enamora por primera vez mientras encuentra el coraje para protestar por el derecho al voto de las mujer… [more below]

    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534499865
    • Language: Spanish
  • Keesha’s House

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    An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

    Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, tr

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    • Author: Frost, Helen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 08 2013
    • ISBN10: 0312641273
    • Language: English
  • The Bones of Me

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    The go-to mystery thriller to cozy up with this season, for fans of YA gems like Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Told in dynamic verse and prose!

    “The com

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    • Author: Duckhouse, Kel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1914343034
    • Language: English
  • Alas Salvajes (Wings in the Wild)

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    Ahora disponible in español!

    Los seres alados han de ser libres.

    Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y

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    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1665927704
    • Language: Spanish
  • Three Things I Know Are True

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    Fans of Jandy Nelson and Marieke Nijkamp will love this deeply moving novel in verse about the aftermath of a gun accident.

    Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoo

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    • Author: Culley, Betty
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: January 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062908022
    • Language: English
  • Baby Teeth

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    A YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity — and vampires.

    From the multi-award winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection.

    The blood
    Fe

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    • Author: Grehan, Meg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1912417901
    • Language: English
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